Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Pike (settler)

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. - Philippe | Talk 04:55, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] John Pike (settler)

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No assertion of notability. Moreover, WP is not a genealogical resource, and that is all this "article" is. MSJapan (talk) 19:12, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Weak delete. He gets the odd mention as an early settler of Woodbridge, New Jersey (apparently his name is on the land grant), but even then primarily as an ancestor of Zebulon Pike.e.g. He was a judge and "governor" and later on Gov. Carteret's "council" but I'm not sure whether that's enough for an article. The vast majority of sources are genealogical, i.e. he is a well-researched ancestor, so GHITS are perhaps higher than they would be otherwise. --Dhartung | Talk 19:28, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Change to keep. In addition to the above he was elected to the colonial general assembly, firmly passing WP:BIO (even if New Jersey only consisted of a few hundred people at the time!). There is a problem in that the birthdates indicate this article was actually written about his non-notable (that I can see) father, and not John Pike (1606-1688). --Dhartung | Talk 09:30, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Delete IMHO, if a biography fails WP:N, as this one apparently does, then WP is not the place for said aticle aboutt he person. ArcAngel (talk) 19:41, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Keep. If being on Gov. Carteret's "council" is equivalent to being elected to a legislature or holding a cabinet position, then he is automatically notable. --Eastmain (talk) 21:14, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep: Receiving a colonial land grant (that needs to be added and sourced) and being on a governor's council sound notable to me. —Quasirandom (talk) 00:35, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.